Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

What they found instead was a series of brine pools—deep pockets of hypersaline water that sit at the bottom of the sea, forming some of the most hostile environments on Earth. Unlike normal ...

Researchers were in a remote region of the Bellingshausen Sea on a different expedition when the iceberg calved, giving them a chance to change course and explore a region never before accessible to ...

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-metre-deep Calypso Deep in the Ionian Sea. A total of 167 objects — mainly plastics, glass, metal ...

Even though it's impossible, red oxygen was found at the sea's bottom. Is there a new source of oxygen in the deep sea? No ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology.